Guest: Tricia Halsey Executive Director The Big Idea Project that focuses on education to provide transformational experiential classes in school to be prepared for life after school.  They have been around for 12 years in Colorado high schools.  Their focus is to see the students grow as leaders, social emotional skills, workforce readiness and personal wellbeing.  www.bigideaproject.org See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Mile High Magazine 07/25/2021 Big Idea Project

Guest: Michelle Graham Executive Director The Urban Farm is a community farm and education center located in Denver; they have over 100 animals on site, green houses, community gardens, and a riding arena.  They are located off I-70 and Havana and they are on a Denver Parks and Recreation Land.  They offer camps every summer to kids ages 4 and up.  They started in 1993 as an opportunity for urban youth to interact with horses.  The Urban Farm is open to the general public not just school kids, the cost is $5 and 2 and under is free.  Farm Fest is coming in September is an open house; you get to engage with the animals, enter the pens, feed the chickens, there will be different demonstrations and food trucks. https://www.theurbanfarm.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 07/25/2021 The Urban Farms

Guest: Hassan Latiff Founder and Executive Director The Second Chance Center The Colorado District Attorney’s Council reports almost 50% of felons released from prison, return. The Second Chance Center has lowered this recidivism rate among its clients to a remarkable 9%.    https://www.scccolorado.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 07/18/2021 Part 2 The Second Chance Center

Guest: Stephen Redfearn President Colorado Fallen Hero Foundation formed in 2017 and has done eight line of duty deaths in the state of Colorado.  The goal of Colorado Fallen Hero Foundation is to help plan a funeral for a first responder killed in the line of duty.  They also do others to help the families, when the officers name is added to the wall in Washington D.C. the Colorado Fallen Hero Foundation flies the families to be there.  They are solely donation based.  Everything raised until July 21 will go directly to Officer Beesley family.  On July 19th KYGO is hosting a Back The Blue concert and all the money raised goes to the family of Officer Beesley.  They have a gala coming up in October and there are still tickets available.        https://www.cofallenhero.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 07/18/2021 Colorado Fallen Hero Foundation

Guest: Monique McCoy Marketing & Community Outreach Director Brent's Place is a long-term home away from home for families and children with cancer and other life threatening illnesses while they receive treatment at local hospitals.  They are one of the only places in the region that can keep families together.  During COVID they were not able to have volunteers helping like they normally would.  They will be hosting a golf tournament in August but it is sold out.  There are still other ways to get involved.    https://www.brentsplace.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 07/18/2021 Brent’s Place

Guest: Maureen Tarrant President and CEO Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children was in the 1990s and they now have over 300 pediatric specialist.  They have families from a 12 state regions that they care for.  Between July 19th and August 28th, KOSI 101, CBS 4 Denver and Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children have partnered to collect new teddy bears.  These teddy bears are then given to paramedics who then give them to a child who just experienced trauma.           https://kosi101.com/teddy-bear-patrol/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 07/18/2021 Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children

Guest: Tony Young a heart and kidney recipient and Brianna DiPilato Communications Coordinator. Donor Alliance is the leader in facilitating the donation and recovery of transplantable organs and tissues.  The Donor Dash 5K Run for Life attracts thousands of participants of all ages from across the nation to honor the lives of organ, eye and tissue donors; celebrate the lives of organ, eye and tissue recipients; and recognize those who continue to wait for a lifesaving transplant.  The 2021 Donor Dash will be held virtually on Sunday, July 18 with an interactive in-person pick-up event at Denver’s Washington Park on Saturday, July 17. https://www.donoralliance.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 07/11/2021 Donor Alliance

Guest: Darla Rae Courageous Warriors; Beauty from the Ashes is the Story of Extraordinary Women & Men who took their recovery from breast cancer a step beyond medical diagnosis, by creating new paths of wholeness through body, mind, and spirit, now offering those as gifts to others.  The film is gift from breast cancer survivors and their caregivers to others who may have or will walk through the unknown battlefields, which they have no idea what is coming.  They have a fundraiser coming up on July 21 to help them raise money to submit to film festivals.     https://courageouswarriorsbeautyfromtheashes.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 07/11/2021 Courageous Warriors; Beauty from the Ashes

Guest: Pat Craig Executive Director     Located in Keenesburg, they have just around 8,000 acres and they save wild animals such as lions, tigers, and bears.  They started over 40 years ago when he found there was a surplus of these animals in the zoos and then they were euthanized.  They are now the largest carnivore sanctuary in the world with over 600 animals in their care.  Most of the animals at the sanctuary have never lived in the wild, animals in their care have large areas to roam and resemble more of what it would be like to live in the wild.     http://WildAnimalSanctuary.org See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 07/11/2021 Wild Animal Sanctuary

Guest: Rochelle Nadeau Director Mile High Behavioral Healthcare also serves as an umbrella to other organizations. Among them is the Colfax Community Network. The staff and volunteers invest time and energy into community youth to inspire them to learn and lead.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 07/04/2021 Mile High Behavioral Healthcare

Guest: Richard L. Murphy Co-Founder & E.D. The idea started with Richard and his co-founder Buck who were both veterans and had an agriculture background and saw how gardening was helping them.  The garden is a place that is calm and quiet.  They had their first class in 2014 and now have offered classes graduate their 160th veteran.  They partnered with places such CSU extension department and Denver Botanic Gardens to help them build the program.  The offer a market farming class that is 21 weeks, that focuses on what it takes to grow a garden in certain areas.  It shows the full process of farming.  The other class is a controlled environmental agriculture, it is a 10 week course and focuses on greenhouse gardening.  They also offer smaller classes.  There is no cost for the veterans and the long term classes offer the veterans a stipend.        https://www.veteranstofarmers.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 07/04/2021 Veterans to Farmers

Guest: Sergeant Blake White The state patrol is expecting to see an increase in travel over the holiday weekend.  They are reminding people to stay alert and to not drink or text and drive.  In 2020, nine people were killed over the road on the 4th of July.  This year there has been an increase in people that have been pulled over for alcohol and drugged driving.  Driving while impaired is at .05 and Driving under the influence is .08, even if you are not in that range but show signs of being impaired you will still get a ticket or taken to jail. This year they will also be at Chatfield Reservoir to watching for impaired people who are driving their boats.  Fireworks that leave the ground or explodes are not legal in Colorado.  If you are caught with illegal fireworks you will be looking at a fine even jail time depending on the area you are in.  If you report illegal fireworks please do not call 911, call the non-emergency line.              See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 07/04/2021 Colorado State Patrol

Guest: Kelly Paris Founder Break the Silence started in 2019 to raise awareness for suicide prevention and mental health.  It started as a musical festival to bring the community together to talk about the hard stuff.  Break the Silence will be hosting their 5th annual music festival on September 4th at City Park in Fort Morgan.          https://www.breakthesilenceinc.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 07/04/2021 Break the Silence

Guest: Grant Scovel Prevention Program Manager  At this time when the mental health needs of our community are becoming more acute, exacerbated by the pandemic, Mile High Behavorial Healthcare(MHBHC) has been a longtime center of support and hope assisting over 250,000. Through programs as Denver Element and Prep Connections, MHBHC also supports the LGBTQ community. For Pride month and Pride Weekend we learn more about this outreach. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 06/27/2021 Mile High Behavioral Healthcare

Guest: Kraig Burleson CEO Inner City Health Center is Denver's premier provider of high quality clinical health services for the uninsured and underserved.  Regardless of your situation, Inner City Health Center will help you navigate the health care system and ensure that you get the help that you need.  They are offering vaccines for COVID as well as offer pop up clinics to get to the people who have been hesitant on getting the vaccine.  Inner City makes an extra effort to reach veterans and let them know of the services that have that are available to them.     https://innercityhealth.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mile High Magazine 06/27/2021 Inner City Health

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